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barredondo
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3 years ago
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Shared/missing files

I have shared a folder and now the files have been "moved" by the person I shared the folder with.  Can someone you share a folder with move your files elsewhere?  Now, my folder is empty and the fil...
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  • Mark's avatar
    Mark
    3 years ago

    Hi barredondo 

    Thats how shares work I'm afraid - the other people can move them around at will. However, moving out of the shared folder does delete for everybody. People need to be told this when starting to use shares as they'll often want to move the files to a different directory not realising it'll delete for everybody else. 

     

    As long as it was deleted within 30 days you can restore via https://help.dropbox.com/delete-restore/recover-deleted-files-folders or ask the person to put them back 🙂

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Mark
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3 years ago

Hi barredondo 

Thats how shares work I'm afraid - the other people can move them around at will. However, moving out of the shared folder does delete for everybody. People need to be told this when starting to use shares as they'll often want to move the files to a different directory not realising it'll delete for everybody else. 

 

As long as it was deleted within 30 days you can restore via https://help.dropbox.com/delete-restore/recover-deleted-files-folders or ask the person to put them back 🙂

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